How to delete last character in a string in C#?

Question

Building a string for post request in the following way,

  var itemsToAdd = sl.SelProds.ToList();
  if (sl.SelProds.Count() != 0)
  {
      foreach (var item         


        

Answer 1

paramstr.Remove((paramstr.Length-1),1);

This does work to remove a single character from the end of a string. But if I use it to remove, say, 4 characters, this doesn't work:

paramstr.Remove((paramstr.Length-4),1);

As an alternative, I have used this approach instead:

DateFrom = DateFrom.Substring(0, DateFrom.Length-4);

Answer 2

It's better if you use string.Join.

 class Product
 {
   public int ProductID { get; set; }
 }
 static void Main(string[] args)
 {
   List<Product> products = new List<Product>()
      {   
         new Product { ProductID = 1 },
         new Product { ProductID = 2 },
         new Product { ProductID = 3 }
      };
   string theURL = string.Join("&", products.Select(p => string.Format("productID={0}", p.ProductID)));
   Console.WriteLine(theURL);
 }

Answer 3

Personally I would go with Rob's suggestion, but if you want to remove one (or more) specific trailing character(s) you can use TrimEnd. E.g.

paramstr = paramstr.TrimEnd('&');

Answer 4

It's good practice to use a StringBuilder when concatenating a lot of strings and you can then use the Remove method to get rid of the final character.

StringBuilder paramBuilder = new StringBuilder();

foreach (var item in itemsToAdd)
{
    paramBuilder.AppendFormat(("productID={0}&", item.prodID.ToString());
}

if (paramBuilder.Length > 1)
    paramBuilder.Remove(paramBuilder.Length-1, 1);

string s = paramBuilder.ToString();

Answer 5

build it with string.Join instead:

var parameters = sl.SelProds.Select(x=>"productID="+x.prodID).ToArray();
paramstr = string.Join("&", parameters);

string.Join takes a seperator ("&") and and array of strings (parameters), and inserts the seperator between each element of the array.

Answer 6

Try this:

paramstr.Remove((paramstr.Length-1),1);